Solo recital, 34th Rhine Guitar Festival & Academy
Solo recital Marko Topchii (Ukraine, 1st Prize 2020)
J. S. BACH - CHORALE PRELUDE Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (BWV 639)
Marko Topchii performs J. S. Bach's "Rondeau, BWV 826" on a 2024 Richard Reynoso classical guitar
BIO
Marko Topchii, born in Kyiv (Ukraine) to a musical family, began his guitar studies with Volodymyr Homenyuk at the age of 4 and graduated the Kharkiv Conservatory with Volodymyr Dotsenko at 21, continuing with an extensive three-year postgraduate programme at the Kyiv Music Academy with Yuri Aleksik.
In 2018 he joined the postgraduate performance program at the San Francisco Conservatory, in 2023 - a master soloist at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve with Judicaёl Perroy.
Marko had won more than 100 awards worldwide in international classical guitar competitions (no age limit, financial award). Among them - 55 first prizes.
He had appeared with solo recitals at Carnegie Hall, Yamaha Ginza Hall (Tokyo), Halle Cortot (Paris) and others.
As part of his GFA winner's tour, Marko performed 50 concerts in the US, Canada and Mexico, including his second performance at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall.
Often performing with orchestras, his repertoire covers most of the known works for guitar and orchestra by Rodrigo, Villa-Lobos, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Ponce, Brouwer, Abril, Giuliani, Bacarisse and his own arrangement of Bach BWV 1052 d-moll.
Marko is an Artist of the Augustine strings and plays guitars made by Julian Dammann.
Marko has recorded 5 CD’s:
-Fleur de Son Classics - JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition, (2016, Buffalo, NY)
-Contrastes Records (2016, Seville, Spain) - Gredos San Diego Competition, Madrid
-Naxos - Laureate Series - Michele Pittaluga competition (2018, Alessandria, Italy)
-Contrastes Records - Winner of the Francisco Tarrega competition (2022,Benicassim, Spain)
-Naxos - Laureate Series - GFA 2023 Winner
Awards:
2024:
1st prize – Tino Andersen Guitar Competition, Bergen (Norway)
2023:
1st prize – 50th annual edition of the Guitar Foundation of America ICAC (New York, USA)
1st prize – Angelo Gilardino Guitar Competition, Lagonegro (Italy)
1st prize – Oslo Guitar Competition (Oslo, Norway)
1st prize – Concurso Guitarra Lagoa – Ze Gregorio (Lagoa, Portugal)
2022:
1st prize – Luxembourg International Guitar Competition
2nd prize – Certamen Guitarras Alhambra (Valencia, Spain)
2nd prize – Guitar Foundation of America (Indianapolis, IN)
2nd prize – Baltimore International Guitar Competition (Baltimore, MD)
2021:
1st prize - LIV International Guitar Competition “Francisco Tarrega” (Benicassim, Spain)
1st prize – Altamira International Guitar Competition (Hong Kong)
1st prize – Izerlohn International Guitar Competition (Izerlohn, Germany)
2020:
1st prize – Koblenz International Guitar Competition (Koblenz, Germany)
1st prize – 35th International Guitar Competition “Andres Segovia” (La Herradura, Spain)
1st prize, audience prize – 2nd Dutch Guitar Concerto Competition & Festival (Groningen, Netherlands)
2019:
1st prize - 3rd Qingdao International Guitar Art Festival and Competition (Qingdao, China)
1st prize - 3rd International Guitar Competition "Paris Guitar Foundation (Paris, France)
2018:
1st prize – Miami International Festival (MIGF) and Competition (Miami, USA)
1st prize - 3rd Viseu International Guitar Competition (Viseu, Portugal)
1st prize - 1st International Guitar Competition "Alberto Ponce" (Paris, France)
2017:
1st prize – 50th International Guitar Competition “Michele Pittaluga” (Alessandria, I Italy)
1st prize – 2nd Budapest International Guitar Competition (Budapest, Hungary)
1st prize – 1st Valle dei Laghi International Guitar Competition (Valle, Italy)
1st prize – 2nd International Guitar Competition “Alvaro Mantovani” (Follonica, Italy)
1st prize – 3rd International Zagreb Guitar Competition (Zagreb, Croatia)
2016:
1st prize - 7th Singapore International Guitar Competition (Singapore)
1st prize - 23rd International Guitar Competition "Andres Segovia" (Linares, Spain)
1st prize, Special prize - 16th Jan Edmund Jurkowski Memorial Guitar Competition (Tychy, Poland)
1st prize - 41st Incontri Chitarristici di Gargnano International Guitar Competition (Gargnano, Italy)
1st prize - 4th Adelaide International Classical Guitar Competition (Adelaide, Australia)
1st prize - 3rd International Guitar Competition Maurizio Biasini (San Francisco, CA, USA)
1st prize – 12th International Competition “Young Virtuosos” (Sofia, Bulgaria)
1st prize – 10th Anniversary Montenegro International Guitar Competition (Podgorica, Montenegro)
2015:
1st prize, audience prize - 4th Concours de Guitare en Pays Tarnais (Albi, France)
1st prize - 5th Concurso Internacional de Guitarra Clasica Gredos San Diego (Madrid, Spain)
1st prize - Daejeon International Guitar Festival Competition (Daejeon, South Korea)
2014:
1st prize, audience prize, musicians prize - VI JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition (Buffalo, NY, USA)
1st prize, audience prize - Taiwan International Guitar Festival & Competition 2014 (Taipei, Taiwan)
1st prize - III Changsha International Guitar Competition (Changsha, China)
1st prize - VII International Guitar Competition “Ruggero Chiesa - Città di Camogli” (Camogli, Italy)
1st prize - I Jakarta International Guitar Competition (Jakarta, Indonesia)
2013:
1st prize - XII Annual Texas Guitar Competition and Festival (Dallas, TX, USA)
1st prize - VI International Guitar Competition “Culiacán 2013” (Culiacán, Mexico)
1st prize - I International Guitar Competition Victor Pellegrini (Lausanne, Switzerland)
1st prize, Karla Minen prize - XLII International Guitar Competition “Fernando Sor” (Rome, Italy)
1st prize - V International Guitar Competition Claxica 2013 (Castel D’Aiano e Montese, Italy)
1st prize - LVI Tokyo International Guitar Competition (Tokyo, Japan)
2012:
1st prize - IV International Guitar Competition “Ferdinando Carulli” (Rome, Italy)
2011:
1st prize - XII Guitar Art Competition (Belgrade, Serbia)
1st prize - XII Le Concours International de Guitare “Ville d’Antony” (Antony, France)
1st prize - VI International Ligita Guitar Competition (Eschen, Liechtenstein)
1st prize - XIII International Guitar Competition of Sernancelhe (Sernancelhe, Portugal)
1st prize - III International Robert J. Vidal Guitar Competition (Barbezieux, France)
2010:
1st prize - XVIII Mottola Guitar Competition (Mottola, Italy)
2009:
1st prize, audience prize, Enrico Mercatali prize - VI European Classical Guitar Competition “Città di Gorizia”(Gorizia, Italy)
1st prize, audience prize, junior jury prize - III International Guitar Competition Heinsberg (Heinsberg, Germany) 1st prize - II International Guitar Competition “GuitAs” (Kiev, Ukraine)
2008:
1st prize - III International Guitar Competition “Dniprovski suzir’ya” (Ukrainka, Ukraine)
2007:
1st prize, the youngest performer prize - I International Competition "National Philharmonic of Ukraine" (Kiev, Ukraine)
REPERTOIRE
ORCHESTRAL WORKS
Antón García Abril — Concierto Mudejar (1986)
Antonio Vivaldi — RV 425: Concerto in C Major for Mandoline, Strings and Cembalo (1725)
Heitor Villa-Lobos — Concerto pour guitare et petite orchestre (1951)
Joaquín Rodrigo — Concierto de Aranjuez (1939)
Joaquín Rodrigo — Fantasía para un gentilhombre (1954)
Manuel Ponce — Concierto del sur for guitar and orchestra (1941)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco — Op. 99: Concerto in RE (1939)
Mauro Giuliani — Op. 30: Concerto in la maggiore (1812)
Salvador Bacarisse — Op. 72: Concertino for guitar and orchestra in A minor (1952)
DUO AND CHAMBER WORKS
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco — Op. 143: Quintetto for Guitar and Strings (1950)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco — Op. 190: Platero y Yo for Guitar and Narrator (1960)
SOLO WORKS
RENAISSANCE (1400–1600)
John Dowland — P. 7: Fantasia from Robert Dowland “Varietie of Lute Lessons” (1610)
John Dowland — P. 15: Lachrimae Pavane (after Flow My Tears) (1596)
BAROQUE (1600–1750)
Domenico Scarlatti — Keyboard Sonata K.301 L493 (1685—1757)
Johann Sebastian Bach — BWV 996: Prelude – Presto and Allemande from Lute Suite No. 1 in E minor (1708—1717)
Johann Sebastian Bach — BWV 997: Prelude, Sarabande and Gigue from Lute Suite No. 2 in C minor (1720–1739)
Johann Sebastian Bach — BWV 1001: Fugue from Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor (1717—1720)
Johann Sebastian Bach — BWV 1004: Chaconne from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor (1717—1720)
Johann Sebastian Bach — BWV 1006a: Prelude from Lute Suite in E major — arr. by C. Parkening (1736–1737)
Johann Sebastian Bach — BWV 1009: Prelude from Cello Suite No. 3 in C major — arr. by J. Duarte (1720)
Johann Sebastian Bach — BWV 1012: Prelude from Cello Suite No. 6 in D major (1720)
Silvius Leopold Weiss — WeissSW 18.6: Passacaglia (1687—1750)
CLASSICAL (1750–1820)
Fernando Sor — Op. 2: 6 Divertissements — III. Andantino (1813)Fernando Sor — Op. 6: 12 Studies (First Book) — Nos. 10, 11 (1815)
Fernando Sor — Op. 9: Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart (1821)
Fernando Sor — Op. 14: Grand Solo (Sonata Prima) in D major (1822)
Fernando Sor — Op. 28: Introduction and Variations “Marlbrough s’en va-t-en guerre” (1827)
Fernando Sor — Op. 29: 12 Studies (Second Book) — Nos. 14, 16 (1827)
Franz Schubert — Op. 13: No. 2 D711: Lob der Tränen from 6 Schubert’sche Lieder —
arr. by J.K. Mertz (1817)
Mauro Giuliani — Op. 49: Six variations Sur La chanson nationale “I bin a Kohlbauren Bub” (1813)
Маuro Giuliani — Op. 150: Gran Sonata Eroica (1821—1840)
ROMANTIC (1820—1900)
Claude Debussy — La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair) (1910)Giulio Regondi — 10 Etudes (1823—1872)
Ferdinando Carulli — Op. 333: Grand recueil de morceaux progressifs — No. 18 Varie (1831)
Francisco Tárrega — Adelita (1852—1909) Francisco Tárrega — Maria (Gavota) (1852—1909)
Francisco Tarrega — Minuetto in E major (1852—1909)
Francisco Tárrega — Preludio Nos. 4,8,13,14 (1852—1909)
Francisco Tárrega — Recuerdos de la Alhambra (1896)
Francisco Tárrega — Rosita (1852—1909)
Francisco Tárrega — Variaciones sobre El Carnaval de Venecia de Paganini (1852—1909)
Jean Sibelius — Op. 24: 10 Pieces for Piano — No. 3 Caprice arr. Marko Topchii (1895—1903)
Joaquin Malats — Impresiones de España — II. Serenata española (1896)
Johann Kaspar Mertz – Op. 13: Barden-Klänge — Hefte 6. Tarantella (1847)
Isaac Albeniz — Op. 47: Suite Española No. 1 — III. Sevilla, V. Asturias (1918)
Isaac Albeniz — Op. 165: España — III. Malaguena (1890)
Miguel Llobet — Cançó del lladre (1900)
Miguel Llobet — Variaciones sobre un Tema de Fernando Sor (Op. 15) (1908)
Modest Mussorgsky — Pictures at an Exhibition (arr.Kazuhito Yamashita, tr. Marko Topchii) (1874)
20th CENTURY (1901—2000)
Agustín Barrios — Confesión (1923)Agustín Barrios — Estudio de Concierto No. 1 (1919)
Agustín Barrios — Estudio No. 3
Agustín Barrios — La Catedral (1921)
Agustín Barrios — Mazurka Apassionata (The Soul of Maria Ester) (1919)
Agustín Barrios — Un sueño en la floresta (Souvenir d’ un Reve) (1918)
Agustín Barrios — Una Limosna por el Amour de Dios (El Ultimo Canto) (1944)
Agustín Barrios — Vals (Op. 8 No. 4) (1929)
Akira Miyoshi — Epitase (1975)
Albert Russel — Op. 29: Ségovia (1925)
Alberto Martelli — Melancholic Dance (1988)
Alexandre Tansman – Cavatina (1951)
Alexandre Tansman — Passacaille (1953)
Alexandre Tansman — Mazurka (1925)
Alexandre Tansman — Variations sur un Théme de Scriabin (1971)
Andrés Segovia — Estudio sin Luz (1954)
Antón García Abril — Dos Cantares (2010)
Antón García Abril — Evocaciones — III. Moderato (1981)
Antonio Jose — Sonata para Guitarra (1933)
Antonio Lauro — Suite Venezolana (1950)
Antonio Ruiz-Pipó — Cancion y Danza No. 1 (1961)
Curtis Curtis-Smith — Evocation After ‘Gold Are My Flowers’ (1992)
Eduardo Sainz de la Maza — La Azotea from Platero y Yo (1972)
Emilio Pujol — El Abejorro (1955)
Frank Martin — Quatre pièces brèves pour la guitare (1933)
Federico Moreno Torroba — Piezas características — I. Preambulo, II. Oliveras (1931)
Federico Moreno Torroba — Sonatina (1924)
Francis Foulenc — FP 45: Pastourelle (1927)
Graeme Koehne — A Closed World of Fine Feelings and Grand Design (1997)
Hans Werner Henze — Royal Winter Music (Second Sonata) — I. Sir Andrew Aguecheek (1979)
Heitor Villa-Lobos — 12 Etudes for Guitar (1928)
Jean Absil — Op. 151: Petit Bestiaire (1970)
Joaquín Rodrigo — Dos preludios (1976)
Joaquín Rodrigo — Por los campos de España — I. En Los Trigales (1938)
Joaquín Rodrigo — Invocación y danza (1961)
Joaquín Rodrigo — Junto al Generalife (1959)
Joaquín Rodrigo — Sonata Giocosa — I. Allegro moderato (1960)
Joaquín Rodrigo — Toccata para guitarra (1933)
Joaquín Rodrigo — Tres Piezas Españolas — I. Fandango, III. Zapateado (1954)
Joaquín Turina — Op. 69: Homenaje a Tárrega (Garrotin and Soleraes) (1932)
John Duarte — Op. 83: Homage to Antonio Lauro — II. Andante espressivo, III. Rondo (1979)
Leo Brouwer — Estudios Sencillos Nos. 1—7 (1973)
Leo Brouwer — Nuevos Estudios Sencillos Nos. 11, 16, 17 (2001)
Leo Brouwer — Tres apuntes (1959)
Leo Brouwer — Variations on a Theme of Django Reinhardt (1984)
Manuel Castillo — Tres Preludios para guitarra (1987)
Manuel de Falla — Hommage à Debussy (Le Tombeau de Debussy) (1920)
Manuel Ponce — Sonata Romántica — I. Allegro moderato (1929)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco — Op. 85: Capriccio Diabolico, Omaggio A Paganini (1935)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco — Op. 195: Caprichos de goya Nos. 18, 20 (1961)
Maurice Ravel — Empress of the Pagodas from Ma mère l’Oye — III. Laideronnette, Impératrice des pagodes (1910)
Michael Berkeley — Worry Beads (1979)
Nuccio D’Angelo — Due Canzoni Lidie (1984)
Regino Sainz de la Maza — Rondeña (1962)
Roberto Gerhard — Fantasia (1957)
Roland Dyens — Libra Sonatine (1986)
Takashi Ogawa — Élégie pour la stèle d’un inconnu (1995)
William Walton — 5 Bagatelles (1970–1971)
CONTEMPORARY (2001—today)
Carlos Moscardini — Suburbio (2010)Guillermo Rifo — Caleta el Membrillo (2012)
Donald Crockett — Fanfare Studies (2015)
John Williams — Rounds (2012)
Marco De Biasi — Improvvisazioni parte II — Improvvisazione VI (2013)
Michel Lysight — Chronographie VI for Guitar (2004)
Marek Pasieczny — Phosphenes, After S. L. Weiss (2016)
Sergio Assad — Aquarelle — III. Preludio e Toccatina (1998)
Sergio Assad — Imbricatta in 10 asymmentrical layers (2015)
Stephen Goss — Labyrinth (2016)
Stephen Goss — Marylebone Elegy (2012)
Yair Klartag — Divergence de la série harmonique (2013)
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